dir() shows strange behaviour with VPython

[Gregor Lingl]

What a surprise to come into contact with martellibot just
after having read your interview on the Euro Python website.

I'm working with Python 2.2.1 on a Windows2000 machine.
Curious if something similar would happen on my machine
I just deinstalled Visual-2002-06-14 and replaced it by
Visual-2002-07-07 and I obtain exactly the same results
as before - the session remaining alive...

Let's see, if somebody else will give us more information
on this ...

Gregor


"Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message
news:j9SX8.62350$Jj7.1617175 at news1.tin.it...
> Gregor Lingl wrote:
>
> > I thought to understand the dir() function, but...
>
> dir() is somewhat in transition between Python 2.1 and 2.2.
> Not sure what Python level should be installed with Visual-06-14.
> It does matter which exact level you did install, and on which
> platform, though.
>
> I just downloaded and installed Visual-2002-07-07 on top of
> my Python 2.2.1 but the s.__members__ access, and thus also
> dir(s), just kills the Python interactive session stone dead
> with 'Aborted' as the only message.  Maybe the 06-14 version
> had its own problems -- not quite as serious as 07-07's (at
> least with Python 2.2.1 on Mandrake Linux 8.2:-) but enough
> to give the anomalies you observe.
>
> (It's also possible that I made some mistake in installation,
> of course, but I closely followed the specific instructions
> for Mandrake on the "additional info" page of Visual).
>
>
> Alex
>